Where Mexico Parties


2010


September 15 – 7:30 Bainbridge Public Library talk and slides on Aguascalientes, "Where Mexico Parties"

October 1, Humanities Washington publication celebration of "Night Lights" anthology.

October 11 – 4-6 pm The Novel Live! Hugo House. Come watch local writers work live on a group novel. I'm not sure why, but it should be fun.

October 26 – Bainbridge Public Library talk on Historical Fiction in conjunction with Jamie Ford's, "The Corner of Bitter and Sweet" as a Kitsap Reads book.

Nov 9 – 7:00 pm - Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators, "Speaking in Tongues: Zadie Smith and Other Writers on Point of View," one of a series of three talks by Whidbey Writers Workshop Instructors on the novel. Seattle Pacific University - Demaray Hall, Room 150. Registration at 6:45 p.m., program at 7:00 p.m

November 20, holiday book sale, Santoro Books, Phinney Ridge, Seattle7 Writers.

November 20-21, 10AM-6PM Seattle Book Fest: Magnuson Park,
Hangar 30, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle.


2011


AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair - February 2-5, 2011 at the Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels, Washington, D.C.

See you there!

Selected Works

Creative Nonfiction
The Desert Remembers My Name
Essays on Family and Writing

The Desert Remembers My Name makes an important contribution to discussions of ethnicity, identity, and the literature of place.”
Bloomsbury Review
Fiction
Treasures in Heaven
"...a mesmerizing tale... the author explores the fascinating confusions and contradictions plaguing a culture precariously poised between tradition and modernization."
Booklist
The Flower in the Skull
"She never forgot the power of storytelling as testimony."
The Utne Reader
Spirits of the Ordinary
"Kathleen Alcalá's Spirits of the Ordinary is an enthralling book..."
–Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Books

"This book entered my dreams."
–Alberto Rios
Short Fiction
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist
"Thoroughly satisfying."
The New York Times Book Review

"By turns touching, entertaining, and surprising, and uniquely her own."
Publishers Weekly

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